A 17-year-old Dover High School student has already started and sold his own gaming network company.

When Austin Long was 13, he started gaming and making videos on YouTube. He then created and sold Square One, a business that works with top-tier YouTube video creators.

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"With a production network or with a management agency, you're managing their branding deals, you're helping them optimize for growth, any sort of graphic design or web development -- basically allowing them to strictly focus on the content and having us help them with everything else," Long said.

His office is his bedroom in Dover, where he's now head of gaming acquisition for Omniamedia in Los Angeles, the company that bought Square One.

"At that point, we were projected at about $2.5 million in gross sales for 2014, and even since then, I've grown so much working with Omniamedia that we'll probably push that by quite a bit," Long said.

As part of the negotiated deal, Long can't say how much money he made for selling Square One, but he can say that it's a payout over time. His mother said that at the age of 17, he's making more than his dad.

Long also plays soccer and is an honor student at Dover High.

"My parents always said, 'If you're not doing well in school, you're cut off (from the computer). It all goes away,'" Long said.

His parents said he's a normal kid whose online clients think he's much older than he is.

"He's very articulate," said his mother, Norma Long. "I mean, he's able to communicate well and is a very good people person."

Austin Long's dilemma is now whether to head to college or take an offer to work full-time in California.

"Even now, I feel like I haven't worked a day in my life," he said. "It's just something that as long as I'm enjoying it, I'll keep doing it."